At Richland, where residents worked exclusively on producing the atom bomb, the town increased in population from next to none to several thousand in two years. The first atomic bombs were produced and constructed at three main sites: Oak Ridge near Knoxville, Tennessee Richland, Washington and near Santa Fe, New Mexico. If they do not now accept our terms, they may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth' ( Seattle Star, p 5). The president said: 'The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East. That day, President Harry Truman (1884-1972) announced that the United States had dropped the bomb.
The planes fly 1,500 miles to Japan and the Enola Gay drops the bomb. local time, on August 6, 1945, a B-29 Superfortress called Enola Gay, a warplane designed by the Boeing Airplane Company and modified at the company's Wichita, Kansas, plant, lifts off with two escort B-29s from Tinian, a small island in the Marianas. On August 6, 1945, the United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the first of two to be dropped on Japan this week.
